Jay Walker

Jay Walker is the Co-Founder and Director of The TEDMED Foundation, which wholly owns TEDMED. Jay is also a longtime TED supporter, a global community of people from every field who focus on unlocking imagination in service of health and medicine. TEDMED is the sole independent licensee of the world-famous TED organization, whose online talks have been watched more than two billion times.

Jay is a serial entrepreneur – a founder of three companies each with more than 50 million customers. He is also one of the world’s most prolific inventors. He is 11th on the list of the world’s most patented living inventors. Jay is the lead inventor on more than 700 U.S. patents focused on unique business systems and solutions across a dozen different industries.

Jay is best known as the founder of Priceline, which has grown into a business with a $50 billion market cap, second only to Apple computer on the S&P as the company with the highest 10-year compounded growth rate.

A noted expert on imagination, Jay created and curates one of the world’s great private libraries – The Library of The History of Human Imagination. Filled with books, manuscripts, historical artifacts and treasures of all kinds, especially in the field of medicine, the facility was described by Wired magazine as “the most amazing library in the world.”

Jay is also an active member of The President’s Circle of the National Academies, The Atlantic Council, and the non-profit, TED.

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